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current account deficit balloons is the u.k. heading for a currency crisis asks jeremy warner in the telegraph and he goes over the usual things of the deficit and all the debt they have but he knows that north sea oil has helped the u.k. economy avoid what would otherwise have been brutally imposed market reform in adjustment as recently as two thousand and one britain enjoyed a trade surplus in crude oil of nearly six billion pounds a year in two thousand and eleven the deficit was ten point seven billion pounds like a receding tide fast depleting north sea oil is exposing the underlying wreckage of the u.k. economy well gerry warner makes an excellent point now and economy has two components in its export market they've got the exploitation of services or they've got the exploitation of goods manufactured goods in britain has not exported had a net balance of exportation of manufactured goods since the nineteen eighties the entire economy sense that your has been built on basically services and what are these services they ar
current account deficit balloons is the u.k. heading for a currency crisis asks jeremy warner in the telegraph and he goes over the usual things of the deficit and all the debt they have but he knows that north sea oil has helped the u.k. economy avoid what would otherwise have been brutally imposed market reform in adjustment as recently as two thousand and one britain enjoyed a trade surplus in crude oil of nearly six billion pounds a year in two thousand and eleven the deficit was ten point...
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very high debt and combined with high deficits and i do there's a large part in the great shock of the recession the. global slowdown starting in two very sweet and they really became a big target now. it isn't the creation of the euro. cars the problem so much because before the euro came into being countries where they clearly had a hundred three percent. g.d.p. ratios and greece greece had two hundred ten percent belgium had. one time in one thousand nine hundred forty five percent so they let there's a lack of fiscal discipline all in a movement to the left in europe big spending and on. social projects that. couldn't keep going it's no longer now europe also has a static population in some cases to declining population and so you have more. people more pensions bills to pay and fewer people to work to pay them you know that it's a pretty big problem when the shot came but when you talk about dadt i mean there are i think two points to make because first of all has always been plagued with debt. reg its budget deficit in order to qualify so maybe it's not the death but what was it
very high debt and combined with high deficits and i do there's a large part in the great shock of the recession the. global slowdown starting in two very sweet and they really became a big target now. it isn't the creation of the euro. cars the problem so much because before the euro came into being countries where they clearly had a hundred three percent. g.d.p. ratios and greece greece had two hundred ten percent belgium had. one time in one thousand nine hundred forty five percent so they...
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reduction at this is so cool the part of the gods of the deficit reduction in one sentence which would give consumers the ability to opt into it into a government run health insurance plan in the obamacare exchanges bill sponsored congresswoman jan schakowsky said of the bill quote the public option deficit reduction act will give health care consumers more choices and lower their premiums and by providing a low cost alternative to private insurance it would put pressure on all insurers to lower their premiums in order to compete so is in the public option the best way to lower health care costs the united states at no why not we are already at a point where we're looking at a bill to fix a problem that's already been created as we saw law just this week democrats and republicans in the in congress are faced with having to update the mandate because as it stands they're not going to be able to get enough money to fully fund the system that they've already so let's toss the public option in there it's going to be less expense is the ready is forcing or when the make a purchase and it's
reduction at this is so cool the part of the gods of the deficit reduction in one sentence which would give consumers the ability to opt into it into a government run health insurance plan in the obamacare exchanges bill sponsored congresswoman jan schakowsky said of the bill quote the public option deficit reduction act will give health care consumers more choices and lower their premiums and by providing a low cost alternative to private insurance it would put pressure on all insurers to...
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i think it's something here because there is this deficit in russian society there are many poor people still here people have been pulled out of poverty yes but there are still huge divisions in this country that hinders an identity issue that can help bring the country there's a lot of black holes throughout russia when we're basically talking all the time about moscow but russia as of right very huge country peter and i have traveled russia a lot and we've seen these places you know. and they're kind of stuck with whatever moscow decides they're stuck with that decision so they don't really have a place in the entire nationalism of the country of that pride they hear what moscow's doing over there and they're kind of left over on the sidelines they need to be involved more. interesting is when i was invited to a stock for apec and that was a very different russia. really quite refreshing because it was very conservative out there very patriotic extremely patriotic i was really impressed and the amount of money they put into investing in and that was kind of a branding rebranding of r
i think it's something here because there is this deficit in russian society there are many poor people still here people have been pulled out of poverty yes but there are still huge divisions in this country that hinders an identity issue that can help bring the country there's a lot of black holes throughout russia when we're basically talking all the time about moscow but russia as of right very huge country peter and i have traveled russia a lot and we've seen these places you know. and...
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controls on imports we have the so-called deficit hawks here in the united states who are downright hysterical that our debt to g.d.p. ratio is depending on whose numbers you're using and whether social security somewhere that ever had a seventy percent or one hundred ten percent and yet japan is over two hundred percent of their g.d.p. is dead is that not the case if i'm remembering correctly and if so why is that not a problem for them. well it is their figures them on that circuit or on it's hard to know with just these figures for us what's really going on because there may be double counting there but the larger issue here is that the deficit hawks in the united states are looking at the wrong thing they're looking at. the borrowing debt relative to the domestic economy what they should be looking at is the extent to which the united states is having to borrow abroad and of course these days particularly borrow borrow from china in effect american defense policy these days and months to borrowing from china to defend the curled up from china it is a totally nonsensical passage in india an
controls on imports we have the so-called deficit hawks here in the united states who are downright hysterical that our debt to g.d.p. ratio is depending on whose numbers you're using and whether social security somewhere that ever had a seventy percent or one hundred ten percent and yet japan is over two hundred percent of their g.d.p. is dead is that not the case if i'm remembering correctly and if so why is that not a problem for them. well it is their figures them on that circuit or on it's...
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year that's a huge number being has the ten biggest deficit on the planet of any.
year that's a huge number being has the ten biggest deficit on the planet of any.
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three year that's a huge number to be in has the ten biggest deficit on the planet of any country and effectively it's hemorrhaging money at the moment because the budgets were made in the good old days when property markets were going through the roof nowadays nobody can sell a property liberty can manage to get a job and obviously the government simply doesn't have the money even for essential facilities like health care clearly there is a concern amongst the doctors that you're going to see an incredible amount about religious profiteering being made by the private health sector but i think actually the truth is that ultimately governments are hideously inefficient when they do large scale health provision that's the pure and certainty spaniards are not sure whether their economy can survive in its current creaking state the un or our big peace envoy to syria has said there can be no military solution to the conflicts well scott has voiced its support for political transition in syria but says present as sons exit cannot be a precondition for a deal to end the crisis washington say
three year that's a huge number to be in has the ten biggest deficit on the planet of any country and effectively it's hemorrhaging money at the moment because the budgets were made in the good old days when property markets were going through the roof nowadays nobody can sell a property liberty can manage to get a job and obviously the government simply doesn't have the money even for essential facilities like health care clearly there is a concern amongst the doctors that you're going to see...
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unsustainable look at that we cannot proceed with policies that have generated recession more dad and a larger deficit which our society is destabilized and it is falling apart and that's a guy on the year during his time in berlin alexis tsipras met with the german finance minister wolfgang schauble now the two of them turned don't see eye to eye when it comes to the best way to get greece out of its current financial troubles alexis tsipras saying this in two austerity is what's really needed and well we're going shoulder firmly on board with anglo merkel's message that germany's message that it's only through austerity that greece can get its finances back into any semblance of order and get it debt under control well alexis tsipras wants to see elections in greece in he hopes to win those elections he would have to deal with germany but following this meeting it doesn't seem like they agree on much when it comes to the future of greece's finances. to some other international news stories in brief for you at least ten people have been killed in a suicide car bombing at a headquarters of the kurdish
unsustainable look at that we cannot proceed with policies that have generated recession more dad and a larger deficit which our society is destabilized and it is falling apart and that's a guy on the year during his time in berlin alexis tsipras met with the german finance minister wolfgang schauble now the two of them turned don't see eye to eye when it comes to the best way to get greece out of its current financial troubles alexis tsipras saying this in two austerity is what's really needed...
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bit embarrassed about this whole episode he tried that he looks like a very tough guy he looks at the deficit in a lot of the cold respects however how tough you are but he tried not to tell anyone and eventually his wife found out through from journalists we managed to get hold of ourselves earlier here's what he had to say when i fell out i only had parents slippers and t. shirt i ran for seven kilometers i didn't curse money tap and i just saw the train was gone so i came quickly to my senses and started running so that i didn't freeze i ran on the railway track for about twenty or thirty minutes when i go to the nearest station their eyes popped out after they saw a man with almost no clothes on women there quickly gave me tea and reported what just happened i didn't tell this to anybody my wife found out about the incident only after journalists called her. so i would imagine that he got a rather difficult phone call from his wife have to see found that he had been in the situation and trying to keep it secret from i was going to favor any fall out at home because the earth's any kind of
bit embarrassed about this whole episode he tried that he looks like a very tough guy he looks at the deficit in a lot of the cold respects however how tough you are but he tried not to tell anyone and eventually his wife found out through from journalists we managed to get hold of ourselves earlier here's what he had to say when i fell out i only had parents slippers and t. shirt i ran for seven kilometers i didn't curse money tap and i just saw the train was gone so i came quickly to my...
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deficit and to shut down the guantanamo bay detention center by his ideas that she can only force there are even more pledges he's not addressed. it's generally thought that a second term six u.s. presidents free walks those handcuffs that kept them from doing great things in their first term because they had to think about getting reelected all the time in the last four years we've heard many times president obama's hands are tied on this issue word that issue suppose this election has on tied his hands we don't have a crystal ball to tell you what he's going to do with those three presidential hands but we may already see signs of what is to come. president obama steps into his second term carrying a heavy load of promises along with the. threat of another devastating. for four years president obama pushed to a great extent by israel. war with iran i will take no options off the tape and what i see. is that some believe the appointment of chuck hagel as defense secretary who is known to have been against a strike on iran may be a sign that the new obama administration will be less war
deficit and to shut down the guantanamo bay detention center by his ideas that she can only force there are even more pledges he's not addressed. it's generally thought that a second term six u.s. presidents free walks those handcuffs that kept them from doing great things in their first term because they had to think about getting reelected all the time in the last four years we've heard many times president obama's hands are tied on this issue word that issue suppose this election has on tied...
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promises and want to cut the growth of two or should it over the next three years we've got to cut the deficit by four trillion dollars over the next january so long as i'm commander in chief we will sustain the strongest military the world has ever known along with the pledges comes the threat of another devastating war in the middle east for four years president obama pushed to a great extent by israel has war with iran and i will take no options off the tape and i mean what i say. some believe the appointment of chuck hagel as defense secretary who is known to have been against the strike on iran may be a sign that the new obama administration will be less warmongering towards the word but two of the country's leading middle east experts orange convinced vision i would bet a certain amount of money we will hear the words all options are on the table come out of his come out of his mouth in addition to the point that we have the appointment of john brennan at the cia who i think is someone who the israelis are just fine with who will continue what many of the covert programs of course are dr
promises and want to cut the growth of two or should it over the next three years we've got to cut the deficit by four trillion dollars over the next january so long as i'm commander in chief we will sustain the strongest military the world has ever known along with the pledges comes the threat of another devastating war in the middle east for four years president obama pushed to a great extent by israel has war with iran and i will take no options off the tape and i mean what i say. some...
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public option deficit reduction plan and basically what it did is that allowed people to buy a public option insurance as well as health insurance i think it's a great idea i love jan schakowsky she's great frank in chicago last call what's up frank. you know our support of israel i'm absolutely there but doesn't anybody wake up and see that they're treating the problem. like they're not peace treated i mean maybe in that i don't i think that's what. your argument thanks for the call your argument starts to break down when you get into that kind of hyperbole but the fact of the matter is that in israel there is a very loud very public debate about israeli policy with regards to the west bank and the palestinians and gaza and we just generally don't have that debate here in the united states and i think it's unfortunate i think that it's it's not good for israel that we don't have to pay for your take my take a live thank you for all of your calls i didn't get your calls and i was called back next week. is the good the bad and the very very bad no genesis showily ugly the good stephani
public option deficit reduction plan and basically what it did is that allowed people to buy a public option insurance as well as health insurance i think it's a great idea i love jan schakowsky she's great frank in chicago last call what's up frank. you know our support of israel i'm absolutely there but doesn't anybody wake up and see that they're treating the problem. like they're not peace treated i mean maybe in that i don't i think that's what. your argument thanks for the call your...
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depends on how you do your column thing with accrual accounting or cash accounting but they're running deficits of between a trillion and a half for a five trillion dollars per year if you use a cruel accounting. so they're going to be printing up lots of money and whether they do it by creating a trillion dollar koreans. or not it's academic really they're going to destroy the remaining value of the u.s. currency and it's going to happen quickly at this point not gradually as it has since one thousand and thirteen when the fed was created by not done casey let's move over to another area that i say that you're you know well known for i've been on your mailing list for probably more than a decade so i'm aware of your your your ideas here pertaining to your thoughts on argentina and the idea that you are you've encouraged people to come to argentina community in argentina to i don't want to put too much of a spin on this but i'll say it's kind of a libertarian values embraced in bye-bye community and even talking about this for a while recently we have people in mimicking you doug if i can say t
depends on how you do your column thing with accrual accounting or cash accounting but they're running deficits of between a trillion and a half for a five trillion dollars per year if you use a cruel accounting. so they're going to be printing up lots of money and whether they do it by creating a trillion dollar koreans. or not it's academic really they're going to destroy the remaining value of the u.s. currency and it's going to happen quickly at this point not gradually as it has since one...
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inferior content we must make the hard choices to reduce the cost of health care and the size of our deficit. but we were just the belief that america must choose between caring for the generation that built this country and investing in the generation that will build that future the future for this country still wide open and uncertain now when the crowds die down and the celebrations come to an end the president says he wants to get back to work immediately looking back you may remember his candidacy and his rise to power were built on a strong foundation of hope and change all this time around people say words won't be enough this time around people are expecting results in washington christine for sound our team. president obama kicks off a second term matter critical critical time for foreign policy from fear over iran's nuclear ambitions to uprisings in the middle east and now an increasingly volatile situation in north africa interestingly enough there was very little very little mention of foreign policy in the president's inauguration speech today what are our panel again now to dis
inferior content we must make the hard choices to reduce the cost of health care and the size of our deficit. but we were just the belief that america must choose between caring for the generation that built this country and investing in the generation that will build that future the future for this country still wide open and uncertain now when the crowds die down and the celebrations come to an end the president says he wants to get back to work immediately looking back you may remember his...
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about things about shaving one hundred billion dollars when we're when we're facing trillion dollar deficits. about. you know controlling this liberty or strapping down. regulation when we should be figuring out how to how to liberate. capitalistic enterprise yeah yeah so there is that the same thing that you look at all are there any other specific things that you think are concerning to you when you talk about that long term trajectory the u.s. is on shore well you know eric speaks about and is quite correct i think to speak about the theater that is engrossing the american population as they get fed these other c.g. piece to taste. and on and on employment index i'm a little more on sort of with what's going on behind that theater the militarization of the police you know the rise of the police state that those kind of things that you know i mean. there are trains that you don't want to see leaving the station so it sounds like it's just as much about certain civil liberties as it is about the economic condition of the u.s. and i mean can you really separate the two because we're talking
about things about shaving one hundred billion dollars when we're when we're facing trillion dollar deficits. about. you know controlling this liberty or strapping down. regulation when we should be figuring out how to how to liberate. capitalistic enterprise yeah yeah so there is that the same thing that you look at all are there any other specific things that you think are concerning to you when you talk about that long term trajectory the u.s. is on shore well you know eric speaks about and...